I’ve always been a big fan of the quote from Einstein “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Sometimes I need a little slap to wake myself up, remind...

One of my favorite things when traveling is connecting with new people. It reminds me that the locale is more than a dot on a map, it’s a place with other humans just like me. And we’re all in this ...

Inspired by a dear friend, I’ve started picking themes for my year. Like a good playlist for a party, picking a theme sets the tone for the year and makes it easy to connect all the individual goals...

I was at Kripalu this past weekend to take a storytelling course with Matthew Dicks. Matt’s an astonishingly gifted storyteller who’s appeared on many stages. Heard of The Moth? Matt’s won twenty-se...

We can’t control what happens to us, but we get to choose how we respond and how we tell our story.

Chelsea Dinsmore is an amazing role model of not only surviving the unsurvivable, but using it as...

Before we left for Kilimanjaro, I’d read that we’d hear the phrase pole pole (say pole-ay pole-ay) a lot. It means slowly in Swahili, and it’s what the guides say as you’re hiking. Makes sense: we k...

Carl Jung said You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. My version: We aren’t what we don’t do, even if we really want to be.

Do you want to be a regular meditator, a three-time-a-week runn...

Grab a piece of paper and a pen. Now write down the first thoughts that come to mind when I ask Who are you? Take a couple of minutes and write it all down.

Excellent. Now, read through your respo...

Believe it or not, one of the keys to getting me up and down Mount Kilimanjaro was a hat. Not just any hat, but THE HAT OF MINDFULNESS.

Before we left, I bought myself a wide-brimmed hat, just the ...